I'm often trying to search for topics and posts for a specific package which contains special characters "-", "/", "." or numbers. But the search string is shorten automatically by removing special signs and numbers.

When I search for e.g. "linuxtv-dvb-headers" the engine searches for "linuxtvdvbheaders" and don't find related posts like this.

Do I need to use a special syntax to use special characters and numbers in the search string?

Until now I work around this problem by searching with Google.

Regards

Last edited by samo on Sat Jan 28, 2012 12:04 pm; edited 1 time in total

The included search sucks, big time, but that's for years now and AFAIK no subject of change in the future. Just use Google with site:forums.gentoo.org or your prefered search engine. If you know some JS, just use GreaseMonkey/UserScript/etc to replace the search field above for convinience._________________++++++++++[>+++++++>++++++++++>+++>+<<<<-]>++.>+.+++++++..+++.>++.<<+++++++++++++++.>.+++.------.--------.>+.>.

Don't know, but I guess it's just same security pre-caution, trying to avoid SQL-injecting and such stuff. Or the search built in PHP is just not capable of doing the needed things, the db itself surely isn't the problem._________________++++++++++[>+++++++>++++++++++>+++>+<<<<-]>++.>+.+++++++..+++.>++.<<+++++++++++++++.>.+++.------.--------.>+.>.

I'm often trying to search for topics and posts for a specific package which contains special characters "-", "/", "." or numbers. But the search string is shorten automatically by removing special signs and numbers.

When I search for e.g. "linuxtv-dvb-headers" the engine searches for "linuxtvdvbheaders" and don't find related posts like this.

The search engine strips out punctuation when it indexes the posts as well as when searching. So if you search for "linuxtv-dvb-headers" it will find posts that contain that phrase even though it shows "linuxtvdvbheaders". E.g. it will find this post.

The reason it doesn't find the post in the German forum is that the search engine does not search the language forums by default. To search a language forum you need to select it from the search page._________________Search | Read | Answer | Report | Strip